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...your choice extracurricular, you cried when you found out your housing assignment,* your section leader is the biggest tool, your three finals were scheduled back to back, and the list goes on. (Note: all of the above happened to me.) Shit happens to everyone here. I always take comfort in knowing that, no matter how messed up things seem, someone probably has it worse. Despite all things I could complain about during my time at college, the good far outweighs the bad. Ultimately, if I had known these things earlier, would I have been happier? Maybe...
...will be reincarnated by next year as a “reading room” (whatever that is) from the spilled beer and cigarette ashes of its days defining “lovably sketchy” for Harvard. “When I was a child, I used to comfort myself whenever I felt scared by imagining a big castle,” said Ryan A. Petersen ’08, Cabot House resident and madman. “When I came to Harvard, I found that the Castle really DID exist! It was called the Currier...
...coming to close, FM follows up with the big question: are Positive Psych kids any happier? Students say they are flying high after spending a semester learning techniques for positive living—strategies for dealing with procrastination, for coping with stressful situations, and for stepping out of their comfort zones—with Lecturer on Psychology Tal D. Ben-Shahar ’96, affectionately know to his students as “Tal.” “He says a lot of things that some people find cliché, or people thought that he was preaching...
...also a lot of turnover in the Minor Leagues, with guys being “called up” and “sent down.” Continually having to meet new guys and adapt to their style of play makes it more difficult to find a comfort level and come together as a team. Similarly, all of the roster shuffling tends to leave some uneasiness, since you are in a sense competing against your own teammates just as much as you are against the other team. If the guy three lockers over is throwing better than you, he?...
...himself behind in the count. “It’s a tough spot to hit in,” he said, “you know? I don’t care how good your stuff is.” In the end, Harvard took a bittersweet comfort in that it lost not because of chaotic defensive play, as was partly the case two weeks ago, but because it was simply “overmatched, plain and simple,” as Walsh said. “There’s not a whole lot of regrets...